Seal of Nikephoros Botaneiates protoproedros and doux of Peloponnese and Hellas
SigiDoc ID: s-3BHPfQ
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-0v0l2o
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Weight (g)
- 24.7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, corroded, dented, partially effaced.
Dating
- Date
- 1068–1074.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy, Prosopography
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Nikephoros Botaneiates
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Find place
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- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-2
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- St Demetrios standing, holding a spear in his right hand and resting his left hand on a shield. Legend preserved at left.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 8 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. The last line is between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Feind2010, p. 157-159, no. 22 .
- Parallel(s)
- (1) specimen published by Begleres (acquired in Smyrna; current location unknown) – Begleres1916, p. 5 (with picture); Laurent1929, p. 610, no. 3 ;
(2) Orghidan Collection – Orghidan, no. 235 ;
(3) Hirsch, Auction 175 (23–26 September 1992), lot 1567 (= SBS_Auctions1991-1996, p. 122, no. 1567 );
(4) Dr. Busso Peus, Auction 376 (29–30 October 2003), lot 1378 (= SBS_Auctions2002-2006, p. 186, no. 1378 ); Münz Zentrum, Auction 94 (13–15 May 1998), lot 942 (= SBS_Auctions1997-2001, p. 238, no. 942 ). - Further references
- Karagiorgou2008, p. 117 ; Karagiorgou2008a, p. 107, images nos. 5.1-4 ; Seibt2008, p. 199, no. 235 .
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. / Κύριε βοήθει Νικηφόρῳ πρoτωπροέδρῳ καὶ δουκὶ Πελοπονίσου καὶ Ἑλάδος τῷ Βοτανειάτι.
St Demetrios. Lord, help Nikephoros Botaneiates protoproedros and doux of Peloponnese and Hellas.
References
Commentary
The seal’s issuer is Nikephoros III Botaneiates, emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 1078 to 1081, at an earlier stage of his career.